Senior Reporter
THE KISSING SCENE is mandatory for certain types of drama, but became forbidden overnight because of work safety rules imposed during the pandemic. The US TV network Lifetime got around the prohibition by having actors kiss through plexiglass, and then digitally removing the barrier in post-production. These adjustments, some small and many large, all of them disruptive in some way, paint a picture of an industry having to frantically make up new rules as fresh problems arose.
GMA Network, Inc., the country’s largest television network, was caught out by the lockdown with two films in production one in which crews were “literally in the middle of shooting,” according to Ianessa S. Valdellon, GMA Network first vice-president for public affairs, in an e-mail interview with